Universal #609
Legacy number: 609
| Number | 606 |
| Original | If there are two verb-lexicalization rules in a language such that the two meaning characterization contrast only in the quantity or quality of some noun phrase referent involved in the event, this noun phrase constituent will be either an object or an intransitive subject, but not a transitive subject. |
| Standardized | If there are two verb-lexicalization rules in a language such that the two meaning characterization contrast only in the quantity or quality of some noun phrase referent involved in the event, this noun phrase constituent will be either an object or an intransitive subject, but not a transitive subject. |
| Keywords | lexicalization, intransitive subject, transitive subject, object |
| Domain | syntax |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978d |
| Source | Moravcsik 1978d: 272 |
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